In truth the fatal violence against lesbians like Nogwaza and Simelane is an extreme illustration of a truth about all rape: it is always "corrective".
I witnessed a vivid illustration of this truth when I arrived at the Directors Guild of America screening room in Manhattan on Thursday to attend a viewing of "Phèdre," starring Helen Mirren, the first "live" broadcast of a stage production from the National Theater in London.
Of all cultural forms, humor — whether written, visual or stand-up — seems the clearest illustration of the greater truth that not everything translates from one society or era to another, even, or perhaps especially, in an age of globalization.
Watching America's leaders scramble in the closing days of 2012 to avoid a "fiscal cliff" that would plunge the economy into recession was yet another illustration of an inconvenient truth: messy politics remains a major driver of economic developments.
The state's geology provides an unusually clear illustration of an environmental truth that's of growing significance all over the world: what happens on the surface of the earth is closely connected to what happens underground, and the relationship runs in both directions.
With Jill Lepore May 30, 2017 Illustration by Tom Bachtell In "The Strategy of Truth," Jill Lepore writes about Presidential truth and propaganda.
Does the presence of illustrations set up a different standard of truth than would be expected of a traditional biography?
There is little sense of Truth's reality in this illustration, no hint that her owner once disconcertingly "fired up a bunch of green sticks in the fire hardened like stone / and beat me until the blood ran".
The second illustration concerns a passage in which James defended his account of truth by urging that it was the concept used in successful science.
For vivid illustrations of this eternal truth, look back no further than last season.
While Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub is major news, it is just another in a long line of illustrations of a basic truth about the primary value of most successful high-tech startups.
